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Post by priestling on Mar 17, 2011 22:09:25 GMT -5
So, I've decided to try out Lent, unofficially... I'm not foregoing my meat, but I'm going to give up soda... or at least try. So far, so good. 5 days in and it's... weird, but somehow okay.
Of course, the potential for it helping with my diet is good.
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Post by rookie on Mar 18, 2011 11:53:57 GMT -5
Good for you.
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Post by Smurfette Principle on Mar 18, 2011 14:04:17 GMT -5
Dieting for Lent is awesome. It makes things easier if you decide to keep dieting afterwards.
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Post by MaybeNever on Mar 18, 2011 14:18:39 GMT -5
On the other side of the spectrum are those who give up their diets for Lent. Oh, Catholicism.
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Post by priestling on Mar 18, 2011 14:53:26 GMT -5
@ Smurfette: Well, I've been dieting, or trying anyway, since June of '09, when I weighed in at 283.4, having gained 50-some odd pounds since I'd moved from Oregon here to New York, and gained all the weight in 8 months. I was down at 247 this time last year, but now I'm disturbingly back up around the 260 mark, with no reasonable explanation.
I'm just lucky my job is prompt with giving me my benefits cards, unlike my last one. Totally going to see a doc once I hit the effective date, and explain my situation to them. I'm eventually shooting for 180, but I'd be satisfied with 200.
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Post by Vene on Mar 18, 2011 20:11:03 GMT -5
On the other side of the spectrum are those who give up their diets for Lent. Oh, Catholicism. But, you can't ever give up a diet, not unless you want to gain the weight back.
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Post by MaybeNever on Mar 18, 2011 20:43:35 GMT -5
Maybe they're giving up having lost the weight. Their Lenten resolution was to regress.
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Post by The_L on Mar 19, 2011 11:46:19 GMT -5
@ Smurfette: Well, I've been dieting, or trying anyway, since June of '09, when I weighed in at 283.4, having gained 50-some odd pounds since I'd moved from Oregon here to New York, and gained all the weight in 8 months. I was down at 247 this time last year, but now I'm disturbingly back up around the 260 mark, with no reasonable explanation. I'm just lucky my job is prompt with giving me my benefits cards, unlike my last one. Totally going to see a doc once I hit the effective date, and explain my situation to them. I'm eventually shooting for 180, but I'd be satisfied with 200. My ex was your height, and looked pretty good at 180. I'd say that's a good goal to aim for.
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Post by priestling on Mar 21, 2011 16:04:44 GMT -5
So, a small update here... it's been a week since I gave up soda, and 6 days since I weighed in last. I dropped 2 pounds. Not too shabby, considering that Doesn't Happen, of late. If this keeps up, and I drop another 2 pounds by next week, I'm DEFINITELY going to keep going... if I can keep it up until I leave for my convention in the first week of June, plus seeing my brothers for a week, that'll be 22 pounds gone, and it'd put me right around 240, which would be even less than I weighed in this time last year. I left Oregon at 227... I'd like to get back to that, and keep going from there.
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Post by Ranger Joe on Mar 28, 2011 14:26:48 GMT -5
I give up Bear Wrestling every year. I have never faltered once.
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Post by davedan on Mar 28, 2011 16:53:46 GMT -5
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Post by Ranger Joe on Mar 29, 2011 12:30:51 GMT -5
Die, Cracker. I mean Bears as in big furry woodland creatures. They usually come in Grizzly, Black or Kodiak variety.
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Post by Hades on Mar 29, 2011 18:36:39 GMT -5
Bearforce 1 is an awesome name for a gay band.
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Post by Dragon Zachski on Mar 29, 2011 19:46:57 GMT -5
To be honest, when I think about it, the whole timing for Lent is backwards.
You're giving up food... in the time of plenty.
It'd make more sense for it to be closer to winter or something, when it becomes the time of not plenty.
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Post by Sigmaleph on Mar 29, 2011 20:24:22 GMT -5
If there's no food to go around, then you aren't really giving it up. There's no act of will, only being forced by circumstances.
I'm not saying that is the rationale behind it, but it might be.
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